SPECIAL HALLOWEEN CHAPTER

'THE HORROR HOUSE'

The creepy old wooden plate hanging in front of the cafeteria's door says as it swung creepily from side to side. A boy with a mummy costume stood stiffly in cower, looking over a boy with an alien costume beside him.

"Dylan Brownham!"

A voice called as the deafening low voice echoed around the school's hallway, the boy with the mummy costume jittered in his stance, shifting his gaze to the hallway then back at the room they're currently in front of, trying to decided which path to choose.

Well, there's no more path to begin with anyway, they were now facing a dead end, although, it's not really a dead end since it's the cafeteria.. except.. the senior high-school students decided to turn the cafeteria into a spooky halloween horror house for the school's halloween event.

You can say it really was a 'Dead End'

Hehe..

"Come on! VIktor! Help me out! Please!"

"I'm trying!"

The boy with the alien suit also jittered in his stance, he knew they were in big trouble and they had to save themselves, this left them with no choice but to enter the cafeteria.

They slammed the door close, locking themselves inside as the lights suddenly switched off, the two froze.

The Horror House was starting.

"Did you turn that off?" The raven-haired boy with the mummy suit named Dylan Brownham asked while still having his eyes fixated on the door, denying to turn behind him or anywhere around him.

"Uh.. i don't recall.." The blonde-haired japanese boy with the alien costume named Viktor Juno Kei murmurs, also having his gaze fixated on the door.

Hearing each other's statements made their skin crawl as a shock went up their spine, they were locked inside the horror house with the lights closed.

Though, they can't just stand around the same place especially that Dylan's Club Captain is currently looking for the raven-haired boy to attend a short swimming practice rehearsal.

The raven-haired boy didn't like the fact of attending that swimming rehearsal rather than enjoying the school's halloween party, everyone would also think the same way too.

So, he had to run off and decided to pull the blonde boy in an alien suit with him.

"Slainte mhor agus a h-uile beannachd duibh, good health and every good blessing to you!" Dylan prays, clasping his hands together as he screws his eyes shut, he fell down the floor in process.

"Are you praying? A american prayer?" The blonde boy with the alien suit chimed, his eyes sparkled as he peered at the quivering raven boy who was about to shit his pants. Hearing a foreign prayer made his attention instantly shift onto it.

"I'm Scottish! It's a Celtic Prayer!" Dylan sobbed hysterically, his voice pitched high in fear. "..and may the light--.."

As the raven-haired boy with the mummy suit continues to pray on the floor, the blonde japanese boy perked, hearing a strange noise not far in front of them, he was about to take off the head of his alien costume to check out what the noise was as Dylan held his wrist before he could do.

"No! Stop! You'll be petrified! The creations of demon should not posses you! You're the only one i hav--"

"I don't seem to understand you, dy--"

Another strange loud noise interrupted the two as Dylan shivered even more, the blonde japanese boy's curiosity didn't seem to make him frightened about the noise just now.

Viktor squinted his eyes in front of them seeing two large shadows sauntering towards them, the room was indeed too dark that he couldn't identify what had coming towards them, adding up his alien suit giving him a limit to see everything around him.

The two large shadows were instantly recognized by Dylan as this made him scream his throat sore.

"Hey! Shut up! You with the mummy suit!"

One of the figure screamed back, a girl with a noodle mascot came onto both's view, they immediately stopped and froze.

It was another student.. but with a weird looking noodle costume..

Dylan swore he almost blurted out a snort, but he stopped himself from doing so, plus.. he was still frightened to do so.

"The Horror House has different entrances and exits, we came from the 2nd door and you two came from the 1st door, now we just have to look for the exit since the entrances are locked as soon as you enter." A girl spoke, wearing an astronaut mascot as she looked around the dim lighted room, around them were curtains and cloths pasted from the ceiling making the area look like a maze.

The blonde boy with the alien suit perked up as soon as he heard the voice of the girl in the astronaut mascot, he was stunned and he wasn't dense as well.

Is this girl estelle?

"Yes and we should all go together let's go!" Dylan quickly jolted up from the floor, dusting himself off as he approached the two masked girls.

"Oh no.. i'm going with my friend not with y--"

"I think you should go with him, i'll go with alien." The girl with the astronaut suit inquired before standing beside the boy with the alien suit. "Come on, it'll be faster this way and no one will betray each other since we're not with our friends." She added with a small giggle.

"Well, the best betrayers are our comrades, so i presume that Ms Astronaut has a very good point." The boy with the alien suit smiled behind his veil, the latter with the astronaut suit smiled back unknowingly.

"Oh, come on! Look at him! This is the guy i'm going with?!" The girl with the noodle suit shrieked pointing at the latter with the mummy suit who shot her an offended look.

"Excuse me, ms cup noodle?! You'll be safe when you're with me, i promise."

. . .

"I SCRATCHED MY KNEE!!!"

"GOODBYE! MAY OUR MOMENTS LIVE FOREVER IN OUR MINDS--"

"ARE YOU ACTUALLY LEAVING ME ALONE--"

Not five minutes during the first obstacle, the two that parted first was already invading the whole Horror House with their screech and screams.

"Leave them, they'll find their way out. Now, come on Mr Alien." The girl with the astronaut suit chuckled, waving her hand at the blonde latter quickly jogged towards her as they walked their way inside the first room.

The room was small but it was wide, forest painted walls made of carton boxes were around them as the blonde boy with the alien suit was about to walk ahead when a sound interrupted him.

Both of them froze as they cautiously looked around.

Although, what was there to look for? The lights were still closed and they couldn't even see a dust except for the dim lighted carton walls of the small spacious room.

"I have my phone, hold on." The girl with the astronaut suit quickly fumbles on the pockets of her mascot, her big astronaut glove hands were on the way, but good thing, she still managed to gradually slip out her phone out her suit's pockets.

As soon as the girl opened the flashlight on the back of her phone, the two's eyes quickly darted in front of them.

Both knew they were doomed.

It was a room filled with red lasers..

..and they had to cross each one without touching one..

The boy with the alien suit was the first one to relax on his poise, well.. lasers? Red lasers? What harm would it do? It's just a manmade horror house anyway! Plus, it was made by mere high school students.

What could go wrong?

The blonde-japanese-boy stared at his unveiled hands, his alien suit wasn't really enough to cover his whole body, so he had to go with bare hands.

He took a sharp breath before reaching his hand out for the lasers to touch without no hesitation.

The girl with an astronaut suit's stiffened poise slowly relaxed, nothing seemed to happen as soon as the boy with the alien suit touched the lasers..

..until something snapped..

So suddenly, a gun was heard..

..it was a paint gun..

The boy with the alien suit grunts as a bullet-like shaped of paint met his wrist, it was red paint, the girl with him swore that she almost fainted, thinking it was blood and they were facing real guns.

Of course, the school wouldn't allow that, no school would.

"I have an idea, this looks pretty easy." The girl spoke enthusiastically as she rubs her palms together, the other curiously stared at her, curious about what the girl would do.

But before he could ask, the girl with the astronaut suit quickly sprinted towards all the lasers, not caring about the paint guns that were attempting to shoot her.

But her agility and speed didn't make her costume splattered in paint as she successfully exited the room, the boy with the alien suit stood there baffled.

Maybe, that was actually Estelle.

A few minutes later, the boy with the alien suit finally came out of the laser room with a few paint splashes around his costume.

The girl with the astronaut suit laughed mockingly at him as she pats his back comfortingly, they went on the next horror room.

"H-How many rooms are there? I ought to not enter any more rooms, i don't want any paint guns shooting at me anymore." The blonde boy pants, his words became muffled to the astronaut girl who looked around the room.

"Only three, i assume."

The Second Room was zombies, the growling students with zombie costumes came crawling out under the tables around the room, the two squeaked, bumping onto each other as they turned to look at each other.

Both stared blankly before nodding knowingly.

A few minutes of avoiding all the crawling creatures and their hands reaching out to pull them, they finally survived and successfully exited the second room.

"Wooh! Nice run, mr alien!" The Astronaut Girl chimed, patting the other's back once again, the latter smiled back to her.

As soon as they took their first step inside the third room, a nuisance came to ruin them.

"M-Ms President!" The Astronaut Girl exlcaimed in bewilderment seeing Kierra Crowshoe with a cat outfit, originally from the cat in Alice In Wonderland.

"Greetings, my lovely astronaut named Estelle, of course. Who else if it's not you?" The cat girl grinned passionately, her wide grin creeped out the girl with the astronaut suit.

'I don't seem to know if i'd fret about the next obstacle or Estelle being snatched by Ms President away from me.' The blonde boy thought to himself, he internally smacked his hands, he knew it was Estelle, it was obvious from the first glance.

The next obstacle came into their views, it was spiders.

Not costume..

Not pain guns..

Not painted walls..

But, moving large spiders being controlled by a remote by one of the students in responsible of the Horror House. Well, spiders? What could go wrong?

For the two women, nothing.

But for the blonde japanese boy with the alien suit? Everything.

Viktor stiffened in his place, anything but spiders. He tucked his bottom lip in as he fisted his hands, they were all quivering.

He never handled spiders well, he would even freak out just by looking at them.

He'd be the one to crawl instead of them.

"Oh please, are these trying to scare me or make me laugh? The absurdity of this place brings me to laughter." Kierra who clung onto the girl with the astronaut suit giggled mischievously, "Now, let us go, my dame--"

"Mr alien? You okay?" Estelle asked the still shivering blonde boy who seemed to be still glued on the floor. She immediately knew what was wrong.

The boy in the alien suit was scared of spiders.

People would find this funny..

..but the astronaut girl doesn't..

It was a phobia, what seemed to be so funny in it?

The Young Astronomer approached the blonde boy before quickly intertwining her hands with his, the blonde japanese boy flinched, looking up only to see an astronaut suit gazing at him, its motion telling him that it's okay to cross and she'll cross with him.

An Astronaut suit with Estelle inside.

Why would he say no? He trust her most of all.

And it's Estelle after all.

The blonde japanese boy pondered before slowly nodding 'yes', the astronaut girl then covered the eyes of the boy's alien suit, not wanting him to see what's currently heading towards them as she sped through the room, pulling the blonde boy with her.

They both finally stepped out of the Horror House, students who were incharge of building the whole room cheered and clapped for them, congratulating the two.

Estelle giggled, complimenting the students for their hard work and creativity as they thanked in response.

The Young Astronomer with the Astronaut Suit turned behind her, looking for the other with the Alien Suit.. but didn't spot him anywhere..

The latter hummed before shrugging it off, landing her eyes towards the boy with the Mummy Suit and her best friend with the Noodle Mascot.

"Oh my god-- i knew i was brave--"

"Wow, says the one who almost pissed himself by the finger looking hotdogs that came out of the witches bowl--"

"Aurora! And-- Dylan!" Estelle's eyes widened seeing the boy with the Mummy Suit was actually Dylan Brownham all along, Aurora with the noodle mascot snickered beside her.

"Yeah, i wasn't expecting it to. Until he fought with those draculas, they ripped his bandage mask off." Aurora snorted, fanning her hands around, "Where's mr alie--"

"Where is Viktor?" Dylan pants, finally standing upright as he faced the Astronaut Girl questioningly, the young astronomer creased her eyebrows at this.

'Viktor?'

That was when she realized.. that the boy with the alien suit who's so afraid of spiders was Viktor Juno Kei all along.